“thinking”
Appeared in 52% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (45 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 52% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“thinking” prevalence in designer JDs, by week
2026-04-13 → 2026-11-02% of each week's designer postings that mention this term · 21 collected weeks · peak 52% · 29 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%
Where the conversation happens
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| Role | Total mentions |
|---|---|
| Senior Product Designer | 1297 |
| Staff Product Designer | 648 |
| Product Designer | 375 |
| Design Lead | 225 |
| Principal Product Designer | 217 |
| UX Designer | 135 |
| Design Engineer | 109 |
| AI Product Designer | 100 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 77 |
| Content Designer | 44 |
| Growth Designer | 31 |
| Product Design Manager | 24 |
| UX Writer | 22 |
| Brand Designer | 20 |
| Junior Product Designer | 18 |
| UX Researcher | 16 |
| Design Director | 13 |
| Associate Product Designer | 12 |
| Head of Design | 5 |
Roles where “thinking” appears most
Ranked by share of the role's active listings that include this term. Roles with fewer than 20 active listings are left out.
- Principal Product Designer67% · 128 of 192 listings · 227 mentions
- Product Design Manager61% · 27 of 44 listings · 36 mentions
- Staff Product Designer60% · 412 of 687 listings · 714 mentions
- Design Lead54% · 138 of 256 listings · 230 mentions
- Senior Product Designer51% · 842 of 1,657 listings · 1,358 mentions
- AI Product Designer49% · 60 of 123 listings · 100 mentions
- Design Director42% · 24 of 57 listings · 38 mentions
- Design Systems Engineer41% · 38 of 92 listings · 81 mentions
- Product Designer41% · 288 of 704 listings · 402 mentions
- Content Designer38% · 41 of 107 listings · 60 mentions
About this tracker
Every active designer listing in our corpus is tokenized: HTML stripped, stopwords (common English words + job-posting boilerplate) removed, pure numbers dropped. The remaining tokens are bucketed into Monday-anchored weeks based on when each listing was first seen. Counts are weekly totals across every listing for that week. A week only counts as collected if our LinkedIn scrape (about 80% of volume) ran that week; weeks when it didn't are shown hatched as gaps, never as zeros.